teachers to take bits and pieces and create their own lessons. think of it as open source education. >> i think there's lots of occasions where businesses might try opening up and be surprised at what happens. for example, we wanted to translate t.e.d. into the other languages instead of paying for thousands of translators to do it, unaffordable frankly, we opened it up and made the transcripts free for anyone to look at. translators then applied at volunteers. we paired them up with each other so they could check each other and we've ended up with the library being translated into more than 80 languages as a volunteer effort. >> like t.e.d., we are posting my interview with chris anderson online. it's worth watching on our bl blog@cnn.com/your money. i'll tweet it out, as well. thank you for joining the conversation this week on "your money." we're here every saturday at 189 p.m. eastern and sunday at 3:00 p.m. eastern.

tweet me, high handle is @ali velshi and have a great weekend. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good afternoon. i'm martin savidge. thank you very much for joining us this hour here in the "cnn newsroom." hugo chavez is fighting for his health interesting way of putting it according to venezuelan officials. the 5-year-old leader has a severe lung infection. his fragile health has a lot of people wondering whether he will be able to go through with his inauguration next week. moments ago, venezuelan lawmakers elect elected a president of that country's national assembly. joining me is senior latin affairs editor rafael romo. this national assembly election is really crucial. tell me about it. >> it is crucial because it ensures continuity. those people who are loyal to president chavez at least have

the certainty that whatever happens and there are two possibility scenarios either the vice president or the president of the national assembly in this case the man who was just re-elected, would have to step in in the case that president chavez is unable to take office. now, he's scheduled to take office next thursday, january 10th. and the constitution spells out a coup of different possibilities. they're already talking about flexible plans, postponing that inauguration fur a later date to give mr. chavez enough time. the other option is maybe he is sworn in in front of the supreme court even if the supreme court has to travel to havana, cuba, where he underwent cancer surgery. >> this has all the earmarks after a power struggle that's going to be created, especially if chavez were to die. is that wa we're starting to see play out? >> it is a possibility. so far what we have seen especially when it comes to his

loyalists is a very unified showing the world that they are unified behind the figure of president chavez who they say is the legitimate president. he won the electionses with 54% of the vote on october 7 and as far as they're concerned, he will come back and take office at a later date. >> let's talk about the potential implications for the united states here. what are they? >> a lot of people say venezuela, who cares right here in the united states. well, after canada, mexico, and saudi arabia, venezuela is the fourth largest oil supplier to the united states. >> a lot of oil. >> not only that, if you want to talk about diplomatic and international relations, venezuela has been constantly time and again defying the united states when it comes to international policy, becoming friends with iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad, inviting china to invest in latin america. and it is responsible for the

most part to the fact that cuba has remained a viable country because it gives cuba a lot of money in terms of oil and in terms of help and other kind without venezuela, cuba would probably have failed already. also responsible for countries like nicaragua buying satellites from china instead of the united states. so the geeio political implications as to what happens in venezuela are very important and can hit americans directly in their pocket when it comes to oil prices. >> so is there any way perhaps that the u.s. can try to influence whatever this transition is likely to be? >> the latest word from the state department is, whatever happens in venezuela is going to be a made in venezuela solution. the united states is not going to interfere in anything that is internal in venezuela. that's the latest we heard on thursday at the state department. >> we'll have to see how the health of the president plays out. rafael, thank you very much. today angry protesters are gathered in steubenville, ohio,

where two high school players ma'lik richmond and trent mays are accused of raping an underage girl. this morning the city's police chief talked about the investigation and a video that surfaced showing some teens joking about the alleged rape. >> early in the case during the first week after we were made aware of this incident, we obtained this virginia video. i too as all my officers who investigated were appalled by these morally inept statements made. the new prosecutors, the special prosecutors for the high attorney ag's office, everything was submitted to them. they decide what charges if any would be filed. >> isked national correspondent susan candiotti earlier why so many people had turned up for this protest. >> they don't think some of them that police have done a thorough job of investigating it. they allege that there has been a cover-up. now authorities and the city ensis that there has been no cover-up, that they are doing a

thorough investigation and that the people that have been charged will have justice done at a trial coming up next month. but there are a lot of people here on both sides. they're staging a noisy protest here and many of them feel that the city hasn't done enough to get down to the bottom of this. we'll all find out as that trial begins. >> i understand susan, you have exclusive new details of an alleged text message that was sent from the 16-year-old girl to trent mays. and he, of course, is one of the boys accused of raping her. what did the text say? >> that's right. this comes to us from the defense attorney for trent mays. now, he tells us and it says "i know you didn't rape me." now he says that this was sent on august 14g but let's keep in mind here he did not show me the text. we don't know the context of it, whether that's the only text, whether there were several texts, did some precede it, did

some follow it, what were the tone, unanswered questions that we have here's the timeline to remind people. >> there's been discrepancies talked about the victim and what state me might have been in. i'm wondering what does her attorney say about her physical state? >> well, that, of course, is what we wanted to know, too. he will not comment, nor will many other people about the evidence of this case or about the text message in particular. but he did have this to say about the text message or messages that may have been sent that night. listen. >> this young girl was unconscious so she wouldn't have the ability to know whether she was raped or not on the day after or two days after, three, whatever the timing of that was. we also don't know and we don't know whether the defendants were texting trying to coerce or talk people into making statements and trying to build up a defense for themselves after they started realizing, this thing kind of unfolded.

>> she was unconscious, so how do we really know what happened that night? >> well, in fact, there's even been testimony in a probable cause hearing back on october 14th that she told police she didn't remember anything about what happened that night. however, there are at least three witnesses that testified at that hearing, one of them testified that he saw this 16-year-old girl being raped. >> by the way, the trial of the two 16-year-old suspects is scheduled to start on february 13th. well, a plane carrying a famous italian fashion design ser missing. vittorio missoni and his wife and four others took off from a small island off caracas, venezuela, yesterday. that plane vanished. searchers are still looking for any signs of a crash or information about missoni. he and his brother luca and sister angela run the fashion house. elena cho who covers the

world of fashion now joins us and she is on the phone. elena, you've been speaking to a lot of friends of missoni. i don't want to get into the thinking the worst here. we're going to stay very positive. but what are people saying? >> well, you're right. i've spent much of the morning speaking to several very close friends of the missonis. obviously, the family is worried. but still hopeful. i can tell you from what i understand the family has flown to venezuela to be near the search, to get as much firsthand information as they can about this missing plane. it happened from what i know yesterday morning. vittorio missoni who is 58 years old and his wife maurizia and another couple i understand were on the plane. vittorio is quite an avid scuba

diver, known by one friend as a beach boy. loves to swim and spent many vacations in venezuela. obviously, they were headed back from what we're told to italy. next week is actually missoni's mens show in milan and so never a good time to get this type of information, but it comes at a very busy time for the company. >> yeah. tell us just how big the missoni name is in the fashion world. >> it's very big. in fact, there are few names bigger. it's a company that was founded in 1953 really an iconic label built on knit wear, bold colors and patterns and you're talking about sweaters essentially that were made into dresses and gowns and blouses and pants, even swimsuits. really was a very, very hot brand for quite some time. in recent years, i would say not so much so, but last year as you mentioned, missoni did a

collaboration with target which sold out immediately. i would venture to guess that it is the most successful target designer collaboration to date. but a little bit more about the family, as well. you're talking about a three-generation family. incredibly close. vittorio was the eldest son of rosita and ohtavio missoni. rosita the matriarch still very influencing in the family. just celebrated her 92nd birthday. margarita missoni, a member of the third generation just got married last year. so a very happy time for the family. vittorio was the marketing director, is the marketing director. his sister angela the creative director of the company meaning the designer of both the men's wear and the women's wear and luca, the middle child, was more involved from what i understand

with the company but less so in recent years. i can also tell you -- >> i'm sorry to interrupt. we're going to have to keep moving. we will, of course, keep our thoughts focused on the very best that the family is going to be found alive and well. their plane missing off the coast of venezuela. thanks very much for the update. meanwhile a deadly shooting this time in aurora, colorado the town where a gunman went on a rampage last year. we'll have all the details. and the president says gun control is one of his top priorities. now house democrats have a new task force looking at the legislative options. we'll meet the man who is going to head that and hear why he doesn't even think we should call it gun control. interesting. gives you 1% cash k on all purchases, plus a 50% annual bonus. and everyone but her likes 50% more cash, but i have an idea. do you want a princess dress? yes. cupcakes? yes. do you want an etch-a-sketch? yes! do you want 50% more cash? no. you got talent. [ male announcer ] the capital one cash rewards card

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four people including a gunman are dead in aurora, colorado after a standoff inside a home. we know from kusa that that incident started early this morning. swat swat teams reportedly shot and killed the suspected gunman and then found three others dead inside that home. aurora, of course, is where 12 people were killed and 58 injured when a gunman opened fire in a movie theater last summer. to washington now where the first day of the new congress, lawmakers introduced nearly a dozen bills related to gun violence. they come in the wake of the connecticut school shooting and promises from president obama to take concrete action to prevent a repeat tragedy. big political ob stacks remain. anthenia jones remain. >> as students at sanny hook elementary returned to class, former congresswoman gabrielle giffords nearly killed in a mass shooting two years ago visited

newtown, connecticut and on capitol hill, lawmakers arrived to begin a new session of congress with members in both chambers taking aim at guns. >> this is a fight that the american people are going to have to stand up and stiffen their spine. >> california democratic senator dianne feinstein plans to introduce a bill to ban more than 100 assault weapons. eight years after the old ban she championed expired. another senate bill would ban high capacity magazines and among nearly a dozen gun bills introduced on day one in the house are efforts to ban online sales of ammunition and to require background checks for all firearm sales, including at gun shows. two bills from freshman republican congressmen would allow more guns around schools. echoing the position of the national rifle association. >> the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> we are better than 32 more gun murderers every day.

>> pro gun control groups plan to keep press for action. but what are the prospects for their success? >> if you're talking about stuff around the edges like maybe banning high capacity ammunition, magazines, that might be possible. >> the nra is the big issue. i wouldn't say it's necessarily on the republican side only. it's on the democratic side also. have you fully half of your new senate has an either a plus a or a minus rating from the nra. you have to have half the senate upsetting the nra if you want anything to happen. that's a difficult proposition. >> there is no more uphill fight than this. the question is, do we fight or do we knuckle under? >> president obama says he wants action on gun legislation this year. he's asked vice president biden to lead a task force to come up with recommendations on gun policy. they're expected this month. martin? >> house democrats are also taking a closer look at gun control and they have created a task force to look at the

legislative options. the man heading that task force is california congressman mike thompson, a vietnam veteran, a gun owner and a member of the congressional sports man's caucus and he joins he now from san francisco. thank you for being with us. >> thank you, martin. i'm glad you're interested in it. >> you've been quoted as saying one of the best ways to persuade colleagues on gun control is not call it gun control. i find that interesting. what is it about the language perhaps creates challenges unto themselves? >> language is certainly important. a lot of times when you talk about gun control, you turn off more than half of your audience. and this is more than just that. what we're doing is we're working to prevent gun violence. it's a very complicated issue. and there's a lot of moving parts. everything from the background checks to the assault magazines, the assault weapons. the mental health capacities that we have.

our culture of violence seems to be so overwhelming right now. all of these things have to be at the table. and everybody needs to be at the table if we're going to figure out what the best public policy is to move forward to make our schools and our neighborhoods safer. >> yeah, and i think you do a good job of sort of explaining. this is a complex and broad issue. it is not just the weapon itself. but let me ask you this. you know, where do you stand say on the ban for assault weapons, and what do you think is actually achievable in congress? >> well, they may be two separate issues. >> i think they are. >> personally, i'm opposed to assault weapons. as you noted, i carried one in vietnam. i'm a gun owner. i think assault weapons are a pox on the home of every gun owner. i think that's the thing that's going to cause the overwhelming majority of the people in this country who aren't gun owners to have negative feelings about

those of us who are gun owners. i don't believe that there's any reason to have an assault magazine. i've never had more than three shells in my rifle. and federal law prohibits you from having more than three shells in your shotgun when you're huntingmy graer to birds. if you're duck or dove hunting or goose hunting, it's against the law to have more than three shells in your gun. now, interestingly, the fine is stiffer for having more than three shells in your shotgun, the monetary fine than it is for owning an illegal machine gun. that's a little ridiculous. >> limiting ammunition magazines and accessories like that could be one way of sort of taming this problem? >> i certainly think that the assault magazines should be off the market. >> let me ask you -- i'm sorry to keep interrupting. >> i think it's important to

note also that the background checks for individuals, there's so many holes in that program, a lot of people have access to firearms whohouldn't have them either because of mental health issues or because of criminal issues. >> right. and very true that in many cases people have seen a loophole when they go to a gun show they didn't necessarily go through a background check. what do you think of the nra's suggestion that we put more armed guards in school across the country? >> i think everything needs to be on the table but you're not going to solve this issue by arming every school teacher or every principal. you'll lead into this interview was what happened in aurora. you're not going to arm every projectist in a movie theater. we just had a shooting in a mall in oregon. you're not going to arm every storekeeper in the mall. it doesn't make sense. most teachers don't want to even think about that. we've got bigger issues and

we've got more relevant solutions. and those are the things that we should be working on. >> congressman mike thompson from california. it's been a pleasure talking to you. i wish you well in your endeavor in trying to resolve this very tragic issue. thank you. have you ever just wanted to string up one of your fellow airline passengers? we'll tell you what happened to one apparently annoyed traveler in the skies over "the atlantic. that's coming up. they have had

much less that they have survive survived it every time. in this week's human factor dr. san jail gupta profiles a

chef to decided to take that luck and pay it forward. >> i'm the executive chef at aqua catering. >> eric levin got off to a rocky start on the food networks chopped. but the fact that he showed up to compete at all defines resilience in the face of adversity. >> the night before i had the chemo radiation treatment i found out i had six to eight months to go. at that moment, it was like a light bulb went off. it was wow, look at the opportunities that i have. most people would give their soul to have what i have. >> eric survived the chopping block and he won $10,000. but more importantly, he's now survived cancer five times. he was first diagnosed when he was just 29 years old. >> after i had beaten the cancer for the fifth time i wanted to have something to remind me every day of life. so the five on the outside represents the five times i've beaten cancer and the im, the is

the indestructible master of one theory that i have. for that, you take responsibility for your happiness and your actions and what you do in life. if you pass that on to one person every day. >> good afternoon, how are you? how we doing today? how are you enjoying your dining experience so far. >> levine is using newfound celebrity to inspire and push others to reach their full potential. he begins in his own kitchen. >> throughout the kitchen we have different phrases or different signs of different things that i think is kind of important to our well-being in the kitchen. the mind-set of the kitchen. the stems cut it off. >> he shares his culinary and cancer survival experiences at events held at his restaurant as well as when he lends his time to the american cancer society. >> for me it's all about paying it forward and paying it to a good cause and very involved with the american cancer society. >> in the end he says fight the fight. do what you love every day. and above all, have some fun. >> i think the fun factor is

what it's about. besides the hokey-pokey. the hokey-pokey is obviously what it's about. but i look at me, i go i get it. i'm not winning any sexiest men of the year awards but i'm the happiest person in the universe. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. >> about two hours from now, dr. gupta tells us how a father's desperation led to what might be a break-through treatment for severe head injury using of all things fish oil. you can catch san jail gupta md at 4:30 eastern only here on cnn. meanwhile a disgraced champion looking to get back into the sport. we're talking about reports that lance armstrong may admit to using performance enhancing drugs. cnn spoke with the cyclist who claims to have witnessed armstrong doping. stay right here for that. [ ryon ] eating shrimp at red lobster

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lance armstrong may be on the verge of crossing a line that he has spent years trying to avoid. "the new york times" reports ample strong is thinking about confessing to doping. his attorney denies armstrong is in discussions with u.s. or world anti-doping agencies about making the move. it's been a little more than two months since the athlete was stripped of his seven tour de france titles after an anti-doping agency said he took performance enhancing drugs. armstrong has repeatedly denied that he did, but multiple people say they witnessed armstrong doping, including a former teammate who spoke to cnn last

year. >> but what i do know is yeah, back in '99, there was a positive test for cortisone that was covered up with a back dated prescription. you're allowed to take cortisone if you have a prescription for it. >> so lance armstrong got tested. he tested positive for cortisone and he got a doctor, a fake prescription, a doctor to back date a prescription saying these were for saddle sores. >> correct. and the uci knew what was going on and allowed this back dated prescription to happen. >> what do you want to say to lance armstrong? >> you know, did he call us liars? no, probably not. so, you know, he's got some -- you know, i understand it's hard. i lied for a long time. and you know, you start believing some of your lies. he's got himself really backed into a corner. and you know, i feel for the

guy. but i know speaking from what i went through, the coming out and telling the truth it feels great. and you know, people will eventually fib lance armstrong, and he's a hero to many and sure, he's disappointed some people. again, people will forgive. >> i'm curious to know when you look at him because honestly after reading this report and the details of it, the evidence is just -- it is overwhelming. and you know, somehow i would see a picture of him and i was looking at him in a different way. i'm wondering when you see him, what do you see? do you see a hero? >> you know, maybe i'm not the best person to answer that question. but you know, lance and i have been through a lot together. he's, you know, tried to intimidate me a year and a half ago in a restaurant in aspen, colorado. i'm definitely not his biggest

fan, you know. so maybe you should ask somebody else. >> fair enough. >> i don't really care to say anything to lance. >> it's interesting though, you feel like when you did finally come forward that a weight was lifted? >> oh, anderson, it was huge. it was huge. you know, i had been lying since my positive test back in 2004. and you know, part of the reason for lying was to protect -- well to continue with the code of silence within the peloton, within the top tier of cycling over there in europe. and i believed that was my only way back into the sport after i served my suspension. >>. let's take a look at some of the stories that are trending on the web right now. a plane carrying italian fashion mogul vittorio missoni is missing off the coast of venezuela. aircraft took off north of caracas friday morning.

in minnesota it, police arrested a pilot just as he was about to get behind the controls of a commercial jet. he was scheduled to fly an american eagle jet with 53 people on board from minneapolis to new york but the airport police say a security agent smelled alcohol on his breath. charges are now pending. take a look at this. that is a passenger restrained by zip ties and duct tape on a flight last thursday. the picture went viral when posted to facebook. the airline says a disrupted male passenger on a flight from reykjavik to new york was hitting screaming and spitting at other passengers while yelling profanities. the man was arrested when the flight landed but no charges were filed. it was the first trading week of 2013 and a pretty busy one and full of uncertainty. let's go to alison kosik in new york to find out just how the markets did. >> it was quite the volatile week on wall street, martin,

between the fiscal cliff, the shorter trading week and the jobs report, there were some major forces for investors to contend. in the end stocks ended with a bang, the dow tacked on almost 4%, the nasdaq rose almost 5% and s&p close the at its highest level since 2007. getting to that point was no easy feat. monday new year's eve, the dow soared more than 160 points even though wall street was closing out the year without a deal on the cliff. but investors focused on the positive especially after president obama said a deal was within sight. just after the ball dropped in times square, the senate passed legislation to avert the fiscal cliff. marks were closed tuesday and that night the house moved the deal forward. >> thanks to the votes of democrats and republicans in congress, i will sign a law that raises taxes on the wealthiest 2% of americans while employee venting a middle class tax hike. >> with that in mind the first

trading day of the new year kicked off with a bang. the dow soared more than 300 points. financial shares surged. visa and mastercard shares reached all-time highs. the deal wasn't the grand bargain people hoped for but it allowed the economy to avert the fiscal cliff at least for now and that was good enough for wall street. thursday and friday were pretty tame days by comparison. wall street managed to post gains on the back of a so so jobs report and so martin, a crazy week. but one with a positive ending. >> we like those, allison, thanks very much. well, to most people he is a great actor. to star trek fans though he is a god. i'm talking about william shatner. he dishes on everything from his time aboard the star ship enterprise to what he's doing now.

he's been in everything from "star trek" to boston legal to priceline commercials and, of course, i'm talking about william shatner. now he's inviting you to his world as he tours across the u.s. he's acting out his own life story in shatner's world, we just live in it. my colleague don lemon spoke to smat shatner why he chose to reveal so much of his life on stage. >> the reason for doing it is because i had something to say,

something to entertain, comment to make. so i've got a wonderfully entertaining show that's filled with laughs and some poinancy. and the audiences have been very good. >> what a night working late, i throw myself across candice bergen's desk. she said are you going to play the scene that way? no, i'm in pain. she said you're passing a kidney stone and she's right. i passed the biggest kidney stone in the history of man, bigger than my wife's wedding ring, same clarity and purity i might add. >> what's your favorite career highlight? do you have one? >> well, i think of it in moments. but again, in the one-man show, i talk about motorcycles. i talk about horses, talk about love, i talk about death. i talk about comedy. there are songs. i mean, i go through a multitude of i riff on a multitude of subjects and yet at the same time, there's prepared enough script so there are a lot of

visuals attached. any one moment, no, i don't think in those terms although you know a lot of people point at "boston legal" as being a thing they watched and i enjoyed doing that. but if you were asked were to ask me what is a highlight in my life, i would say right now the one-man show for an hour and a half in front of an audience and entertaining people by myself. i'm an actor who is -- vitally interested in what he's doing and it can't end and i don't want it to end. and i'm running as fast as i can every bit as much as i did when i was 21. >> what i do like about you is that you have a sense of humor. and your role in "star trek" some people may want to, may have wanted to define you by that. you did not let that happen. and many actors or some actors i should say are not happy about the roles that made them famous because they think they stereotype them. you don't feel that way about

captain kirk, do you? >> no, on the contrary. i'm only eternally grateful for the opportunity to have appeared in that show. and my feeling toward "star trek" has moved almost in a complete circle. i loved doing it when i did it. as the years went by afterwards, i thought these people are dinning me and dunning me with various moments from the show and i got a little tired of it. but then i began to understand that people watching and "star trek" and going to these conventions, i did a documentary on it. it's part of a ritual. it's part of a mythology. it's a wonderful thing. and i've grown to be very proud of my contribution to "star trek" and its meaning to the people who continue to admire

it. >> it's iconic, not only is it part of you know, a television history, it's a part of the american culture. and i wonder when i see -- when people do spoofs of you or they sort of mimic you and do the stack cat toe, i am william shatner, that doesn't bother you, does it. >> no, because i don't recognize what they're doing. some of those actors who most people in america don't recognize, jimmy stewart and edward g. robinson, did they recognize when people were doing imitations of them? with ed regard g. robinson i said do you know that you go -- a lot. >> he goes i go -- a lot? do they recognize spoofs of them? the same way with me. i know what they're doing, but i don't see myself doing that, do i? >> we'll bring you more of william shatner unfiltered.

who would win in a fight, captain kirk or capital pick card? i understand that you and patrick stewart are good friends in real life. >> we are. in real life, coprobably kick my ass. >> the former captain kirk offers a behind the scenes look at "star trek" coming up next hour on "cnn newsroom." well, let's face it. mistakes can have a much greater impact in some professions than others. and sometimes those errors can be fatal. we'll take a look at the growing numbers of medical mistakes and what you can doing about them. [ female announcer ] today, jason is here to volunteer to help those in need. when a twinge of back pain surprises him. morning starts in high spirits, but there's a growing pain in his lower back. as lines grow longer, his pain continues to linger. but after a long day of helping others, he gets some helpful advice. just two aleve have the strength to keep back pain away all day. today, jason chose aleve. just two pills for all day pain relief. try aleve d for strong, all day long

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medical mistakes, they are a nightmarish possibility for anyone undergoing surgery. now a new study shows that they are much more common than we think. cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has a special airing tonight on 25 shocking medical mistakes. and she joins me now. elizabeth, this is you know, it's trouble withing to say the least. >> it is trouble withing. it's not just a hypothetical. i did this special because of mistakes that had happened in my own family. so this can really happen to people and this new study out from johns hopkins puts numbers on it. take a look at these numbers because it makes you go, oh, my goodness. i don't think people realize this. wrong procedures, the wrong procedure is when you go in for a ton sellecktomy and they give

you an appendectomy. that happens to 20 patients a week in this country. 20 patients a week have the wrong procedure. now, same number of patients, 20 patientses a week have an operation on the wrong body part. you go in to have your right knee replaced and they replace your left knee. wrong sided surgery. and in addition to 39 patients a week, they have tools surgical tools left in their body. and are sewn up. and yet you have to know these things going in so that you can be prepared. >> i mean, you know as a patient or as just a layman, how does this happen? >> it happens because we're all human. it's not that doctors and nurses are bad. it's that we're human. we asked one of the co-authors of the study, dr. peter pro know vote of at johns hopkins to help explain one such mistake, leaving a surgical sponge inside a patient. take a look and see how he explains it. >> there's often blood, there's

tissue. it's very difficult to see. and times sponges are tucked under an organ inside you that they're not in clear view but they're soaking up some fluid or blood. >> you see exactly how it happens, right? it's not that hard. >> i listen okay, it makes sense. i still find it stunning it happens. you've got tips in your show tonight how to try to prevent this. >> the we do. there are things you can do. let's take it from the beginning. before you go in for surgery when you're in that waiting area about to be brought in and anness thattized ask to speak with your doctor. this is not easy. we did this with our daughter. we said we want to talk to the doctor to go over everything. >> a refresher? >> he had a busy schedule. how is he going to remember exactly necessarily? i know there are safety things but we wanted to make sure we do, too. we said she's having this surgery on this side of her body and just made us feel better to know we looked him in the eye

and told him, not the nurse but the guy holding the scalpel. say it directly to the doctor. >> a lot of presence of mind to do that. many patients are just so worried. >> a lot of persistence. it's not just presence of mind. we have to be really pushy. they said the doctor's schedule is busy. you can talk to the nurse. you can't talk to the surgeon. we said she's not going to have surgery unless we talk to the surgeon. that kind of did it. >> frightening but fascinating at the same time. thanks very much for bringing this to light for us. >> thanks. and you can watch elizabeth's special tonight at p.m. eastern and, of course, right here on cnn "the empowered patient, 25 shocking medical mistakes." these movies could inspire you to keep your new year's resolutions. our critic shares her list of best resolution movies next. people really love snapshot from progressive, but don't just listen to me. listen to these happy progressive customers. i plugged in snapshot, and 30 days later, i was saving big on car insurance.

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have you made your new year's resolutions? i guess by now you probably should have if you were sticking to the game. if you are already having a hard time sticking to your goals, our movie critic grae drake has movies that could inspire you, the senior editor of rotten tomatos.com is here to tell us about the most inspirational resolution themed films. so the main characters basically do the same thing. they resolve to do something and they succeed, right?

>> that's right. happy new year. let's get this thing started with first of all a movie close to my heart, king kong," the 1933 version has been remade so many times but stick with me here because king kong is this poor ape that is ripped from his homeland but you know what, all of a sudden love becomes the most important thing to him. so i think if one of your resolutions in 20131 to find love and to find a partner, just take lessons from king kong who will stop at literally nothing. i mean he'll even reach through a girl's bedroom window and just take her, which is not really a message that i recommend in real life. but the sentiment is there. carpe deyem, carpe love regardless of the cost and climb up your symbolic empire state building and make it work. >> i love the way you put it into propose. the princess bride, another fine film. >> absolutely. this is a movie that just had its anniversary released on to blu-ray.

one of my absolute faves. it is full of a cast that has very, very decided motives like there's the love thing happening, of course. that's the main part of the film. but another resolution that a character makes is indigo montoya. what his resolution is is to get closure. his father was killed by a mysterious six figure man and he swears he's going to find him and boy does he. because he just keeps at it. you can't stop this guy. so he's one of my favorite just most passionate men, my name is indigo montoya. you killed my father. prepare to die. again, not the best real life thing to do, but the sentiment is there. >> yeah, definitely is. now, another movie here "rocky." which one is it, rocky 1 or rocky 12? there were a lot of them. >> although there are many favorite things about the entire series, this one is all about rocky 1, martin.

because rocky is the ultimate in the physical fitness resolution which is who doesn't resolve in the beginning of the year to be more physically fit this year? i'll tell you what, there have been so many times when i've decided to take the stairs instead of the elevator and on purpose. i hum that theme song we just heard playing because it's really motivating, and rocky is training so hard to win the fight, you just know that he's going to do it. and by the way, going back to the love thing, i think anybody could take a lesson from him because after he wins his big, big fights, spoiler alert, he just yells his lady's name. can you imagine he's covered in blood and sweat, and just adrian. that's all he can think about? i love it. i think it's beautiful. >> powerful moment. a film i love, shawshank redemption". >> definitely, shawshank redemption is a classic. tim robbins, morgan free man. the main character claims he's

innocent but he's been convicted of murder. he goes on such a long journey in his incarceration. and he learns about pretty unsavory things going on in the prison and through all of these peaks and valleys he really sticks to his passion and sticks to making sure that he does what's right and he makes sure that everybody knows about the people that are not doing what's right. so i say that you know, if ever you're in a moral quaupddry and your 2013 resolution is to you know, really stick to honesty and stick to keeping the world a better place. i think the shawshank redemption is a really good lesson for all of us. >> maybe we should watch them to remind ourselves of greatness in people. thanks very much. appreciate it. >> absolutely. i resolve to be more outgoing. >> good luck with that because you need to come out of your shell. i've been meaning to talk to you about it. i wish you well in that effort. thanks. you can get more from grae drake at rotten tomatos.com.

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it's 3:00 in the east, noon on the west coast. i'm martin savidge in for fredricka whitfield. thank you very much for joining us. here are the top stories we're following right now in the "newsroom." a major name in fashion is missing. a small plane carrying vittorio missoni his wife and four others disappeared off the coast of venezuela yesterday. the search is continuing. even though missoni created a line of clothes for target, you may not be familiar with his name. although if you follow fashion that's hard to be believed. steph know tonke is the editor of "w" magazine and is he here on the phone to fill us in. he joins us from the hamptons. just describe for everyone how big a name he is in the fashion world. >> well, missoni's for sure one of the biggest like italian fashion dynasty. the company was started in the '50s by his father and mother and they made an incredible impact in the history of fashion

through their very colorful knitwear. >> and that was it. it was the style he came up with that will kind of defined the family name. i mean, describe it for people who may not know it. >> well, i mean what you probably remember are like these multicolor like striped sweaters that became very popular in the '60s and the '70s like one of the first big exports of its tallian fashion you know, and missoni with like the fendi and ferragamo and gucci are some of the names that made history. then in the '80s, they moved to milan and made milan like one of the capitals of fashion in the world. and later, vit toriol with angela and the brother luca, they inherited the business from the parents and they kind of

tried to make the missoni name more approachable for a new generation. >> and that really does seem to be one of the keys to the success, the marketing here to make it available to everyone. not just to say wealthy people fixed on high fashion. >> or just high fashion. also to have different kind of product at different levels but also you know, missoni is producing also great like fabrics and great like pieces for the home. luis vittorio was very involved into blending out of just fashion and opening hotels. they have one i think in the far east, another one -- so a lot of different ways to expand the name and the reach of the brand. it's very important today when you have you know, an old dynasty with a great like history but you want to reach out to a new generation and

younger consumers to go out and do new things and the collaboration with target was most recently was like quite genius, you know? if you remember, there were like the product was sold out in few weeks, and there were lines like at the stores in manhattan where that line was available. >> yeah, it was. i want to read for you a statement i believe that we have from the family. and if we can put it up on the vene. it goes like this "the missoni company confirms that vittorio missoni and his wife are missing in venezuela. the small plane they were traveling on has disappeared. the company asks the press to kindly respect the family's privacy at this time." we certainly will do that. steph know tonchi, go ahead. >> i'm very close to the family and i can say that we all hope that vittorio will be back with

us, with all the family. and that you know, we are not losing hopes, and i think angela that is really close to me, we grow up together in a certain way. we have the same age. we are from the same jenation and all the rest of the family rosita and ottavio, hope is really like the word. we want to emphasize. >> and we will hope with you. stefano tonchi, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. in other news, four people including a gunman are dead in aurora, colorado after a standoff inside a home. swat swat teams reportedly shot and killed the suspects gunman after he opened fire on a police officer from a window. three people were found dead inside of that home. aurora, of course, is where 1 people were killed and 58 others injured when a gunman opened fire in a mean theater last

summer. today angry protesters are gathered in stuppenville ohio where two high school football players, malik richmond and trent mays are accused of rape agunderage girl. the police chief talked about the investigation and a video that surfaced showing some teens joking about the alleged rape. >> early in the case during the first week after we were made aware of this incident we obtained this video. i too as all my officers who investigated this were appalled by these morally inept statements made. the new prosecutors, the special prosecutors for the high attorney ag's office, everything was submitted to them. they decide what charges if any would be filed. >> i asked national correspondent susan candiotti earlier why so many people had turned up for this protest. >> they don't think some of them that police have done a thorough job of investigating it. they allege that there has been a cover-up. now authorities and the city

insist that there has been no cover-up, that they are doing a thorough investigation and that the people that have been charged will have justice done at a trial coming up next month. but there are a lot of people here on both sides. they're staging a noisy protest here and many of them feel that the city hasn't done enough to get down to the bottom of this. we'll all find out as that trial begins. marty? >> i understand susan, you have exclusive new details of an alleged text message that was sent from the 16-year-old girl to trent mays. and he, of course, is one of the boys accused of raping her. what did the text say? >> that's right. this comes to us from the defense attorney for trent mays. now, he tells us and it says "i know you didn't rape me." now he says that this was sent on august 14, but let's keep in mind here he did not show me the text. we also don't know the context of it, whether that's the only text, whether there were several

texts, did some precede it, did some follow it, what was the tone. these are some of the unanswered questions that we have. here's the timeline to remind people of this. >> there's been discrepancies talked about the victim and what state she might have been in. i'm wondering what does her attorney say about her physical state? >> well, that, of course, is what we wanted to know, too. he will not comment, nor will many other people about the evidence of this case or about the text message in particular. but he did have this to say about the text message or messages that may have been sent that night. listen. >> this young girl was unconscious so she wouldn't have the ability to know whether she was raped or not on the day after or two days after, three, whatever the timing of that was. we also don't know and we don't know whether the defendants were texting trying to coerce or talk people into making statements and trying to build up a defense for themselves after they started realizing, this thing kind of unfolded.

>> she was unconscious, so how do we really know what happened that night? >> well, in fact, there's even been testimony in a probable cause hearing back on october 14th that she told police she didn't remember anything about what happened that night. however, there are at least three witnesses that testified at that hearing, one of them testified that he saw this 16-year-old girl being raped. >> susan candiotti. the trial of the two 16-year-old suspects by the way, starts on february 13th. >> in india the men accused of gang raping and killing a woman will be in court on monday to hear the charges against them. they will be tried in a fast track court where cases are tried quickly. the brutal crime has prompted protests across the country. the woman's friend who was also beaten during the alleged attack spoke out for the first time about their ordeal.

>> translator: from where we boarded the bus, they took us around for two, two and a half hours across overpasses through all of delhi. then they dropped us below an overpass. then they tried to run over us. we had no clothes. we waited there hoping someone would try to help us. i tried to flag down. three wheeled taxis would look at us and move on. >> now the police are refuting the friend's claim that there was a delay and any help arriving. let's go to venezuela where lawmakers just elected a national assembly president. so why should you care? the impact of that move could be significant if president hugo chavez's health doesn't improve. chavez is still battling a severe lung infection. officials have said the 58-year-old leader is fighting for his health. that's a quote. his ig and you ration set for next week but the new head of the national assembly could serve as interim president if chavez does not survive or if

he's incapacitated. lance armstrong's attorney is denying reports of discussions between his client and anti-doping agencies. that statement follows a "new york times" report that the disgraced cycling legend was considering publicly admitting to doping. they asked attorneys avery friedman and richard her man how likely that is. >> the death that lance armstrong would admit to anything about illegal use of drugs, about the lies he's told to federal, state and local officials and to agency people, there's no legal or constitutional sense behind making an admission. i think the attorney quoted in the "times" was correct. he's not going to say anything. it's not going to happen. they're both civil and criminal implications. you will never see a confession here by lance armstrong. >> i disagree with avery. i think in his head, he has to come clean and admit it. but really do we as a society, do we care?

we know what this guy's done. nobody wins seven in a row. nobody can win seven races like that without doping. it doesn't happen. >> that's it. >> he thinks he has an opportunity for reinstatement if he comes clean, and. >> so what? >> it's like michael corleone in the godfather. you want absolution. he's going to try to come clean with himself. it's too late. >> lance armstrong was stripped of his seven titles and banned from cycling for life last year. the u.s. anti-doping agency cited overwhelming evidence that he was involved in a doping program. armstrong has repeatedly denied doping. okay, if you thought the fiscal cliff was nasty, just wait till you see how congress handles spending cuts and the debt ceiling. we'll talk to a republican congressman who actually supported the fiscal cliff deal and find out how he thinks the other deals are going to get done. when it's okay to alter the historical accuracy of an

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we saw it with the fiscal cliff. now the capitol hill confrontations over the debt skeeling are expected to get as intense if really not worse. the debt ceiling is the legal limit on the nation's borrowing. in his weekly address, the president says that he is taking a hard line on the issue. listen. >> one thing i will not compromise over is whether or not congress should pay the tab

for a bill they've already racked up. if they refuse to give the united states the ability to pay their bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic. the last time congress threatened this action, our entire economy suffered for it. our families and our businesses cannot afford that dangerous game again. >> as you would expect, republicans are also drawing a line despite approving the fiscal cliff compromise it, gop lawmakers say the deal was missing long-term spending cuts. >> the simple truth is that we are in this fiscal mess because washington takes too much of your money and then wastes it. that's the real problem. and it needs a real solution. we have to make sure washington is accountable for every tax dollar it spends. we have to make sure that your money is spent efficiently and effectively. >> so here's the question. can a congress this fractured really get anything done? i'm joined by republican congressman ender crenshaw. thank you for being with us.

>> thank you, martin. >> i want to start with the fiscal cliff deal because you voted in favor of it. i just would like to know, what made you decide to support it? >> well, a couple of things. i would love to have voted to cut some more spending but we didn't have that option. but what i did have was an option to stop the largest tax increase from hitting most americans. we've been trying to make those tax cuts permanent for ten years. we had a chance to do that. and so i think that's a positive step. one of the other reasons that i voted in favor of this because this put off this so-called sequester of defense funds. as you may know, we were getting ready to take over a half a trillion dollars out of the defense budget over the next ten years. that would have devastated our national defense. we've already cut spending in defense by $480 billion nearly one half a trillion dollars and another half a trillion would

have had a disastrous effect so i had a chance to vote yes to put that off. as leon pan net at that time said democrat appointed by obama, when they asked him would this destroy our national security, would it be like shooting yourself in the foot, he said, no it would be like shooting yourself in the head. so the fact we can put that off for at least a time when we try to solve the problem of spending, that's the focus now as you just heard from congressman kemp. we're going to focus our attention on stopping the spending madness in washington. that's the next fight. there were, of course, counter opinions to what you just said especially when it comes to defense. we had an assistant secretary of defense last week who said the defense department was perhaps the best of all the departments to sustain major cuts because they've got a lot of expensive programs that could be delayed such as modern fighter planes that aren't necessarily needed to be designed from scratch. you could go with modern

derivations of those. why not cut defense in ways that make sense? >> well, i think the defense department ought to be subject to the same efficiencies as everybody else. but remember last year we decided we're going to take one half a trillion dollars out of defense over the next ten years. that's a pretty big chunk. then to say we're going to take another travel a trillion dollars over the next ten years, you start destroying our ability. when you talk about cuts, remember, there's a concern priorities. i happen to believe and a lot of people believe that is the number one responsibility of the federal government. so we've got to be very careful. sure we ought to make them more efficient. when you take a half a trillion dollars and another half a trillions dollars you start to affect our ability to keep america safe and strong. >> congress has really difficult issues ahead. it's not just the debt skeeling about i'm wondering, when is the fence mending going to begin and how do you do this? >> well, i'll tell you this. the next big battle as you

pointed out earlier is going to be when we decide whether or not to raise the debt ceiling. and what i'm hoping is, the republicans are going to lay out a plan to say here's the way we can stop the spending madness because everybody knows washington has a spending problem. if we lay out for the american people this is how weigh propose to stop spending so much money, hopefully we'll have a bipartisan agreement. hopefully we'll have everybody come together like we tried to do last time. the. the president says he wants to cut spending. democrats say they want to cut spending. so far, there's been very little action. if we can let the american people know what our specific plans are, we can say we're all going to agree together or we're going to force you, mr. president, because we have some leverage this time. we're not going to keep spending money like this. we're out of money. the credit card is full. and we're going to have to stop right now. >> republican congressman ender crenshaw from florida. thank you for joining us in this discussion that is bound to

continue. thanks. >> thank you. have you ever just wanted to string somebody up, say maybe a fellow airline passenger? well, we'll tell you what happened to one. apparently annoying traveler in the skies over "the atlantic. this is america. we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day after day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn.

here's what is making headlines around the world. after a night of violence in northern ireland, more pro british protests today. authorities say nine police officers were injured in belfast yesterday. 18 people arrested. the protests have rocked parts of northern ireland since belfast's city council voted last month to stop flying the union flag known as the union

jack year round. in syria, amateur video shows the aftermath of an apparent car bomb on a main street in damascus. at least 57 people have been killed in syria on this saturday according to an opposition group. president bashir al assad is expected to speak on sunday. and state media reports that the french born actor jird dep parred due has arrived in russia after announcing he has accepted citizenship there. wow. the movie star recently fled his native france in a high profile protest of french tax hikes on the rich. he is expected to meet with president vladimir putin. i guess that's a perk you get when you change. we've got a disturbing incident on a flight from iceland to new york. it was on a flight yesterday, but nothing like this happened. iceland airline spokesperson says the man started hitting, screaming and spitting at other passengers while yelling profanities. so what happened next? cnn international anchor

jonathan mann joins us with this story that i mean we've all been aggravated passengers but this goes to the extreme. >> fellow passengers say this guy got on the plane with his duty-free bottle of liquor and consumed the whole thing. that means we can guess we're talking about 34 ounces of alcohol in a two-hour period. do the math, ten shots an hour for two hours? it's a lot of liquor. he became violent, belligerent and the other passengers and the crew took action. he was threatening other passengers. as funny as that shot may look, that photograph of him trusted up like a turkey, this is a dangerous man in a metal tube thousands of feet in the air. this is what they did to him using duct tape and zip ties. they basically had him confined for another six hours like that. according to icelandic air he was monitored the whole time. they made sure nothing worse happened to him. a man that drunk could get ill and wait the for the whole thing to end. he got off the plane and met by

police. >> is that legal? is it vigilanteism? who is the legal authority on an airplane in the middle of nowhere? >> excellent question. we'll refer it to the supreme court for now. it's standard procedure. one presumes it is legal. they actually keep icelandic air keeps duct tape and zip ties on all of their planes. presumably they have wd-40 to go with the tape. other airlines in the united states don't necessarily have the duct tape but there are means to restrain passengers. sometimes with twist ties, sometimes with seat belts that can come off the seats. we've heard of that in a few cases where they've used seat belts to retrain the passengers. you hear about air marshals being on flights. a lot of times it is fellow passengers who have enough. >> i read this report and i saw that he was taken into custody but he hasn't been charged. >> has not been charged. once again, this is interesting. he was so drunk presumably they took him to hospital. not to jail when he got off the plane. and then they let him go it would seem. he wasn't charged because according to one account, they

couldn't find other passengers who wanted to come forth and actually register a complaints against him. i guess people got their bags, went home, laughed off or shrugged it off. if you're a flight attendant or pilot, this is a dangerous man who has got a lot of people captive in that plane. so good on them. i'm glad they did that. >> i agree with you. i'm surprised they don't have the handcuffs actually. >> the plastic cuffs, the kind of things you see p.o.w.sing in u.s. custody, they do have those on u.s. flight. >> jonathan man, appreciate it. when the fiscal cliff deal went through, so did a bunch of tax perks. . wait till you hear who is getting a tax break from uncle sam. [ male announcer ] the more you lose, the more you lose because for every 2 pounds you lose through diet and exercise, alli can help you lose one more by blocking some of the fat you eat. let's fight fat with alli. ♪

it is 3:30 in the east, 12:30 on the west coast. i'm martin savidge. if you're just tuning in, thank you for joining us. let's look at the top stories we're following here in the "cnn newsroom." the alleged rape of an underage girl by two football players in steubenville, ohio has drawn widespread outrage fueled by social media. protesters are rallying today. poppy harlow looks into the impact on the small struggling town defined by its young athletes. >> this is 55, this is 47. >> for 72 years, jerry barilla as called steubenville, ohio home. football is big here. right? >> football is big here. >> how big? >> well, it's our hopes and our dreams are in football. >> the success of steubenville high's big red football team is

a bright spot, he says, in a town whose economy has been hurting forever since the decline of the steel mills. >> big red football is you know, equivalent to nfl. >> really. >> literally. >> but with two big red football players charged with rape in august and increasing is social media attention since then, many in this town feel under fire. >> what has this done to the town of steubenville? >> well, it has put a cloud over the city. and i feel really it's unjustified. the buzz that keeps coming about is that steubenville is a bad place, things are being covered up. more people should be arrested. and i feel that's all unjustly so. >> activist hacker group anonymous and others have suggested more students may have taken part in the alleged assault or that authorities went easy on the football players. though two have been arrested and charged with rape. >> who do you feel like is saying this whole town has a

black eye is bad? who do you feel like is saying that? >> i think one of the things of mind is the internet. the. >> certainly gone viral. >> yeah. and i think things start to snowball. >> has preferential treatment been given to these boys because they're part of the football team? >> no. that's not true. they're facing charges. no. >> the sheriff of jefferson county where steubenville is located told us he's received threatening calls at home over the handling of the case. despite the fact that the case is being prosecuted by the ohio attorney general's office. >> christmas day the day after they're calling my home? that i hey, you stupid s.o.b., why aren't you arresting more football players. or hey, you idiot bastard, why aren't you out there doing your job arresting more steubenville football players. >> the sheriff believes some of what is being posted online is false. >> it gives us a black eye.

and when you have people continue to put false information out there, you know, it's tough to make it go away. >> steubenville police chief william mccafferty says he's also come under fire. >> what role has social media played in this, in your opinion. >> i believe they're trying to make themselves the judge and jury on this and the investigating -- they want to investigate and try everybody. if you have -- if this they have something that can substantiate the statements that they're making out there, if they don't want to come to my department, the attorney general released a hot line number last night. they can go to him. >> but in the age of social media, what previously would have played out in the courthouse now reflexes on the entire town. >> i feel the same way. i mean, penn state the whole college, all the students that were -- that go there are condemned because of an actions of a certain few. it's the same thing happening here. >> and we will take you live to

steubenville at the top of the hour. lance armstrong's attorney denies reports of discussions between his client and anti-doping agencies. that statement follows a "new york times" report that armstrong is considering publicly admitting to doping. he was stripped of his seven tour de france titles and banned from psyching for life last year. he has repeatedly denied using performance enhancing drugs. then there's this. a new poll finds more americans disapprove of that fiscal cliff deal than an prove. gallup found 3% approve, 45 disapprove and 1% had no opinion. more than 60% of democrats gave their okay to the bill which among many.other things taxed the wealthier at higher rates. but more than 60% of republicans disliked the deal. gallup also found of all the political leaders involved in the showdown, house speaker john boehner ended up with the worst approval ratings but not by much. and if those people polled had heard about some of the tax

goodies by the into the fiscal cliff deal, well the approval rating might be even lower. brian todd explains. >> reporter: the tax perks for some industries that have been extended in this deal might make you blow a gasket like gaskets found on nascar tracks because of this bill have plenty of money to clean those up. the deal has a tax break worth about $70 million for the next two years for motorsports entertainment complexes. what are we talking about here? >> talking about places where car races occur. >> the building of tracks. >> the building of tracks, perhaps the renovation of a track. >> do they need that kind of a break? >> it doesn't matter whether they need it or not, they've managed to get it. >> what do you think of this, extending the tax credit for another year at a cost of at million for algae growerersen an others trying to produce biofuels? fuel made from the fibery parts of grasses, trees and algae. what's what tom shats of the

group citizens against government waste says about that. >> it's pretty outrageous. >> absolutely. this is a product not used commercially in the united states. >> this professor says that's true but as someone who spent years researching how to turn algae into fuel, he says it's worth trying. >> algae grows faster than any other kinds of plants. that's why it may well be the best source as a feed stock for biofuels. >> but the cliff deal also gives tax breaks worth $4 million over two years to the makers of plug-in electric motorcycles and $430 million to movie and tv producers. >> large companies. this does not help small byes, limit is $15 million. as the amount of moneythat they can expense. so it's in the a low budget film to say the least. >> but if it encourages them to to produce their means in the united states rather than taking it overseas, isn't that a good thing. >> just because something is

subsidized elsewhere doesn't mean the u.s. has to subsidize something. >> why was all this included? >> they just didn't have enough time. these tax breaks, the easy thing to do on these was to extend them. these aren't new. >> and we can't even point to one or two congressman in particular and expose them. unlike with earmarks where we could get a list of lawmakers who requested money for certain projects, there's no such requirement for these breaks. there's no specific state or location that can be identified with a given expenditure. brian todd, cnn, washington. you know him as the priceline negotiator. and captain kirk. now william shatner is taking to the stage performing his own life story. he's got quite a lot to tell you next. who would win in a fight, captain kirk or captain pick card? i understand that you and patrick stewart are good friends in real life? >> we are. in real life, he could probably kick my ass. ♪

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last hour we told you about william shatner's newest role. he is acting out his own life story, that is in a one-man show called shatner's world, we just live in it. but many of you remember him, of course, from what is undeniably his most famous role and that

was captain kirk in star trek. don lemon stalked to shatner and he got the inside look at the show. you share what many consider the first interracial kiss on television. >> i just realized how lovely her lips were. >> really? >> that's all you thought about. >> anything that was breaking there might have been her lips but not ground breaking in terms of a racial kiss, no. she was and is a beautiful woman. >> this was the 1960s. were you award at all about your career and that it would have any sort of detrimental effect on your career by sharing a kiss with an african-american woman? >> it never occurred to me no. >> i was a trekkie. who would win in a fight, captain kirk or captain picard because i understand that you and patrick stewart are good friends in real life. >> we are. in real life, he could probably kick my ass. in fiction, i would kick his

aass. can you say ass on television. >> of course you can. and you are captain kirk. >> right and i would have kicked his ass but realize this, patrick stewart was a boxer as a kid. he had a boxing -- he went toism booing school and all. so it would be an interesting fistfight if we had pillows on our fists to see who would win. >> the new "star trek," i'm not sure if you've seen it. but it seems to be very violent, lots of explosions and i mean, it's a different kind of "star trek." what do you think of it? >> exactly. i mean, j.j. abrams is a great filmmaker, and the way he has brought a major audience in to the franchise is to make a ride. so the "star trek" becomes one of those rides with explosions and action and the wonderful people they've got playing the roles. he has made "star trek" popular once again with a far larger

audience. so he seems to be doing the right thing. the star trek that we were in tolds a more personal story, told a story that had moral soul to it, if you will, but the large screen encourages explosions and shoot em ups. >> you and leonard knee moi have worked together for the past 50 years starting even before "star trek" with the man from uncle in 1964, mission impossible. he was the best man at one of your weddings. do you guys still hang out? >> we don't see each other very much now. life has take san us apart. but he's a dear dear man. >> can you make that hand symbol? i heard that you can't make it. live long and prosper. >> i can't make be it. there's a finger up in the air somewhere. >> what people don't know the about you and what i didn't know in doing research is that you have millions of dollars for children's charity. you're very kind. you have a soft spot for certain things. how did you get involved in that? you also auctioned off a kidney

stone for habitat for humidity. a lot of pain did a lot of good. >> a lot of uric acid with that, that's true. you know, the salient thing, the thing that i never forget is that every human being has their story as we talked about earlier, that is their nehas th spirit, their soul. and you can never forget that no matter what the person's circumstances are. they -- and again, the one-man show, i up to on this note. we're on that journey together. the journey through to death. and we don't know what's on the other side of that line of death. so we're locked in this embrace of the journey and the apprehension of what happens after we die.

and it seems to suggest, and i make this point in that show, that we should help each other to make that journey easier and more meaningful. >> william shatner reflecting on life. meanwhile, your smartphone is about to get even smarter. soon it could help run your lights in your house, maybe warm up your car and more. we'll show you the future just ahead.

off, warming up your car, unlocking your doors. simple things but soon your smartphone will be able to do those things for you. cnn money tech reporter laurie segal spoke to two entrepreneurs about this latest technology. >> martin, we always joke about our lives being trolled by our smart phones this that's becoming a reality. your smartphone can do everything from unlock the door to turn on the lights. >> it's 10 below. >> warmup your car with your smartpho smartphone. >> thank you for flying with us. >> technology now possible and starting to take off. >> you're starting to see more products connect to the internet. i think over time, it's starting to create the sort of home of the future where everything talks to each other and things happen automatically like the jetsons vision. >> what does the home of the future look like?

>> i've got a button on my phone that i can press and when i press it, right away it's off. >> spark is building a product that connects items in your home with your smartphone. >> our first product is the socket and it's a little device that screws in your light bulb socket, it connects to the internet over wi-fi and lets you control your lights from smartphone tablet, computer, wherever. >> the idea started as a technology built for the founder's father who is deaf. >> if i text him and he's at home he doesn't note if his phone's not in his pocket. so i wanted to build something that would let his lights flash when he got a text message. >> spark is one of several companies looking to make your home more connected. a company called smart things let's users attach wireless sensors around your house that make everything smartphone controlled. >> they're trying to build a hub that allows hardware such as your scale, your stove, your door, your dog to talk to it and

then software that allows you to be aware of what's going on. so it will send notifications, hey, your dog just went outside. you left your door open. the lights are on. >> is it just the technology's smart enough now. >> the platforms have been built. there's connectivity in your pocket, through wi-fi, through 3 g and lte and connectivity at home. >> major industry players are taking note. ge took the concept outside the home experimenting with sensors placing them on everything from wind turbines to hospital patients to keep track of them in the building. >> you have this controller in your pocket that can enable you to do things that three, five ten years ago were wildly impossible. >> home automation that has been around for ages but entrepreneurs say it's the price that's changes. the tech is becoming cheaper and people are buying it. spark's device is around $50 while the smart things hub with the handful of sensors starts at $170. martin? >> cool stuff. if you want high-tech ideas go

cnn.com/tech and look for the gaming and gadgets tab. here is what's trending this hour. house minority leader nancy pelosi is explaining why her office photoshopped a group picture of 61 democratic congresswomen. four congresswomen were added after the fact, because they couldn't be there for the original photo. and the others got tired of waiting in the cold for them to show up. american eagle pilot getting ready to board his flight was arrested in minnesota after workers smelled alcohol on his breath. officers took the pilot into custody and administered a breathalyzer test, which he failed. the flight from minneapolis to st. paul -- or minneapolis-st. paul, rather, to new york was delayed two-and-a-half hours. and this rare photo of a teenage princess diana will be auctioned later this month. the photo is described as an uncommon early 10 x 8 glossy news photo of a young diana.

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show. a fire breaks out on a boat. no rescue crews in sight of the but then the anonymous hero appears and makes the big splash, literally. jeanne moos has more. >> reporter: when a vessel catches fire, the best way to put it out is probably with a hose. but when a boat is aflame on a little lake in new zealand and there's no hose in sight, this is a sight for sore eyes. >> what are you doing? >> reporter: two men doused the flames with the spray from their speedboat. haden oliver caught it on tape. >> yeah, it's crazy! >> reporter: the maneuver was performed not once -- but four times. someone called emergency services, but it took 25 minutes for fire trucks to reach lake linden and by then the speedboat did its trick. impressing the dispatch manager on duty, grace.

what do you call that technique they used? >> i call it ingenuous. >> reporter: online admirers said it was as if david hasselhoff from "bay watch" were at the wheel, or james bond. except in his movies, 007 tends to set fires. rather than put them out. the speedboat even towed the burned-up craft to the landing. its occupant had jumped overboard and made it safely ashore. the boat was a complete wreck, at least its 25 gallons of fuel didn't blow up and start a brush fire. thanks to the speedboat's spray. >> it's almost like he practiced it. >> reporter: the fire dispatch manager had a message for the mystery speedboaters, delivered in a lingo of native new zealanders. >> just packy packy. >> reporter: packi packi, mr. bond. in this case, where there's fire, now there's only smoke.

sos, splash our ship. jeanne moos, cnn. new york. >> well done. well, is lance armstrong trying to get back into cycling? the "new york times" reports that he may admit to doping and i'm asking a legal analyst just how likely that is. stay right here for that. [ male announcer ] research suggests cell health plays a key role throughout our lives. one a day men's 50+ is a complete multivitamin designed for men's health concerns as we age. it has 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day men's 50+.

it is 4:00 in the east, be 1:00 p.m. on the west coast. i'm martin savage in for fredricka whitfield. these are the stories we're following right now here in the cnn "newsroom." new details about the rape case in ohio. just last hour, city leaders talked about the investigation. >> early in the case during the first week after we were made aware of this incident, we obtained this video. i too, as were all the officers, was appalled by these morally inept statements made. the special prosecutors for the high attorney ag's office, everything was submitted to them. they decided what charges if any would be filed. >> the charges to be filed are against 16-year-old boys. they are accused of raping an underage girl while she was

allegedly drunk or unconscious. the trial for them starts on february 13th. national correspondent susan candiotti joins me now from steubenvil steubenville, ohio. what's happening this hour? we know there has been that protest today. >> reporter: right, matter marty. it just wrapped up. these people were here after this incident really rocked this town. and they gather here together, all of them seeking justice of one kind or the other. there are some people here who are here to support the alleged victim of this case, and all rape victims in general. other people here claim that the city and the investigators in particular are in the midst of a cover-up. that they aren't doing all they could be doing to get down to the bottom of this alleged crime. allegedly having -- two high school athletes here, all of them 16 years old and the 16-year-old girl, who everyone agrees was drunk. and according to testimony, was unconscious most of the night of the trial is set for next month.

but this protest today, marty, went on for nearly four hours. it began at noontime. >> and i know you've got some exclusive new details of an alleged text message that was sent from the 16-year-old girl to trent mays, one of the boys accused of raping her. what did that text say? >> reporter: well, the text says "i know you didn't rape me." and as you indicated this was allegedly sent by the young girl here who is the alleged victim in this case. sent according to the client to her alleged attacker. and, you know, we have not seen it. we asked to see it. we don't know how many text messages before or after it. so we can't tell the context. however, this is what the alleged attacker's lawyer had to say about it. >> the prosecutor's office had given them written verification

that charges would not be filed against them if they agreed to testify. >> reporter: what are you saying? >> well, i'm saying very clearly. i think the inference clearly is they will not be charged with a crime if they cooperate and if they testify regarding what they saw and whether or not it's truthful, that can taint the process. that's my concern. >> reporter: now, that is the attorney representing trent mays, 16 years old. he is actually talking there about a claim that he is making that the ohio attorney general's office, the prosecutors, in this case he claims sent a letter to witnesses saying they would strike a deal with them, that if they would testify, that none of the witnesses would be prosecuted. the ohio attorney general flatly denies that any deals have been struck. now, we talked to the victim's attorney to ask him if he cared to comment about this text that

his client supposedly sent to her accuse -- to the attacker, accused attacker. >> this young girl was unconscious, so she wouldn't have the ability to know whether she was raped or not on the day after or two days after or three. whatever the timing of that was. we also don't know, and we don't know whether the defendants were texting, trying to coerce or talk people into making statements and trying to build up a defense for themselves after they started realizing, this thing kind of unfolded. >> we talked to the ohio attorney general about this, and his spokesman. the spokesman says that the attorney general will not talk about any evidence in this case, and he says that he will not try this case in the media. people will have to wait to see the evidence at trial, scheduled to begin next month. >> susan candiotti in steubenville, ohio. thank you for the update. meanwhile, a plane carrying

italian fashion mogul is missing off the coast of venezuela. it took off from an island north ofca rack as friday morning. i spoke with cnn's alina cho and asked her to give me a sense just how big a name he is, the family is, in the fashion industry. >> it's very big. in fact, there are few names bigger. it was founded in 1953, iconic label, built on knit wear, bold colors and patterns and you're talking about sweaters, essentially, made into dresses and gowns and blouses and pants, even swim suits. really was a very, very hot brand for quite some time. in recent years, i would say not so much so. but last year as you mentioned, missoni did a collaboration with target, which sold out immediately. i would venture to guess that it is the most successful target

designer collaboration to date. >> and the surge for missoni's plane continues at this hour. now let's go to venezuela itself where lawmakers just elected a national assembly president. so why should you care? well, the impact of that move could be significant, if president hugo chavez's health doesn't improve. chavez is still battling a severe lung infection. and venue zala's president said an update on his health should be coming, quote, in the next few days, unquote. his inauguration is set for next week. but the new head of the national assembly could serve as an interim president if chavez does not survive, or is somehow incapacitated. four people, including a gunman are dead in aurora, colorado, after a standoff inside a home. police say s.w.a.t. teams reportedly shot and killed the suspended gunman after he opened fire on police from a window. three people were found dead inside that home. aurora, of course, is where 12 people were killed and 58 injured when a gunman opened fire at a movie theater there

last summer. to washington now, where on the very first day of the new congress, lawmakers introduced nearly a dozen bills related to gun violence. they come in the wake of the connecticut school shooting and promises from president obama to take concrete action to prevent a repeat tragedy. big political obstacles remain, as athena jones explains. >> reporter: as students as sandy hook elementary return to class, former congresswoman gabri gabrielle giffords, nearly killed in a mass shooting two years ago, visited connecticut. and on capitol hill, lawmakers arrived to begin a new session of congress, with members in both chambers taking aim at guns. >> this is a fight that the american people are going to have to stand up and stiffen their spine. >> reporter: california democratic senator dianne feinstein plans to introduce a bill to ban more than 100 assault weapons. eight years after the old ban she championed expired. another senate bill would ban high-capacity magazines.

and among nearly a dozen gun bills introduced on day one in the house are efforts to ban online sales of ammunition, and to require background checks for all firearm sales, including at gun shows. two bills from freshmen republican congressmen would allow more guns around schools, echoing the position of the national rifle association. >> the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> we are better than 32 more gun murders every day. >> reporter: pro gun control groups plan to keep pressing for action. but what are the prospects for their success? >> if you're talking about stuff around the edges, like maybe banning high-capacity ammunition magazines, that might be possible. >> the nra is the big issue, but i wouldn't say it's necessarily on the republican side only. it's on the democratic side also. you have fully half of your new senate has an either a-plus, a or a-minus rating from the nra.

so at least half of the senate upsetting the nra. so that's a very difficult proposition. >> there is no more uphill fight than this. the question is, do we fight or do we knuckle under? >> reporter: president obama says he wants action on gun legislation this year. he has asked vice president biden to lead a task force to come up with recommendations on gun policy. they're expected this month. martin? >> athena, thanks very much. disgraced cycling legend lance armstrong has denied doping over and over again. but the "new york times" now reports he may be considering a public confession. how likely is that? i'm putting that question to a legal analyst, straight ahead. c'mon dad!

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lance am strong and doping. overwhelming evidence he was involved in a doping program, charges he has repeatedly denied. but the "new york times" reports

that armstrong is actually thinking about confessing. is he finally going to come clean? well, joining me now is sportsillustrated legal analyst, michael caine. thank you for being with us. let me askyou, after so many denials, and we have heard them over and over and over, do you really think lance armstrong is about to confess something? >> well, martin, i think it's an interesting question. and it's a big risk for him to do so. both on public relations level and on a legal level. on a public relations level, if he admits he engaged in doping, he would need to give a reason why. would it be that everyone else was doing it? how would the american public react to that? or would it be that he felt the need to do so because in the recovery of cancer, this was the only way he could get back to the way he was? is well, again, there may be some sympathy, but i suspect there will be a huge backlash against him if he now admits what he's been denying for years. then there is the legal issue. could he be charged with perjury, because the "new york

times" reports he has given sworn testimony, saying he never copied. he could say maybe the justice department will agree to the to indict me, but the problem there is why wouldn't they? what's in it for them to not pursue him if in fact he did per jury himself. and then there are civil damages because he would admit to things he said he hasn't done. it's a very complicated situation and a very risky maneuver. >> right. we should point out the attorney that represents lance armstrong has said emphatically there are no discussions of the nature of which we're discussing here. in other words, that lance is going to somehow make a confession. but the thought of this is very enticing to many people, because i think until he says something publicly, that we're all -- there always will be doubters, won't there, don't you think? >> oh, absolutely, martin. i think we've seen other celebrities and athletes alleged to have done wrong things and there are always people who will

stand by them. there were people who stood by pete rose for many years, although he ultimately admitted that he did engage in some of the gambling activities that baseball alleged of him. but i think there will always be supporters. but if lance armstrong comes out and says, you know what, i actually was doping, i was doing all of these things, it would be pretty sdas disastrous for his reputation. maybe that's the first step in a healing process. and at 41 years has many years to go and certainly could recover part of his reputation. but i think the damage would be pretty substantial. >> and that was my next question for you. what would possibly be the up side, the motivation, if he were to make such a confession? >> well, one, martin, i think would be a clean slate. that his conscience would be relieved of a burden that the "new york times" suggests he has in terms of he's thinking about admitting to doing things he has said he has never done. also, he wants to get back and compete. he wants to compete in

triathlons. he wants to compete in running events. the lifetime ban prohibits him from doing so, at least in most of the major tournaments, he isn't able to do so. and also has to be thinking about the long-term strategy. does he always want to have a cloud over his head, allegations he did something and always to insist he didn't do it, if, in fact, he did. i would imagine that would be a source of stress for anyone. >> and real quick, before i let you go, what do you think the impact would be on his livestrong organization? that is a focus of so much good. >> well, martin, i think whatever happens, i hope people continue to support that organization. we separate that organization from whatever allegations have been made against armstrong. it's a crucial organization for finding out ways of curing cancer and other terrible diseases. i think it would probably help on some level, because, again, it would provide that clean slate. but it's crucial that we separate the two entities. >> michael mccann, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, martin.

it is a fact of life. mistakes can have a much greater impact in some professions than others. and sometimes those errors can be deadly. we'll take a look at the growing numbers of medical mistakes and then talk about what you could do to maybe prevent them. >> art is what can't be proven mathematically. >> right. it's where science ends. the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why. the way the object feels in your hands and looks. and almost perfectly created, explain it to somebody else afterwards. but in the creation part, you can't. you can see how the glass is constantly moving. my job is to basically shape it. balance it at the same time. if you can do that, you get these wonderful shapes. glass really rewards risk. a lot of times with glass you're just waiting for the piece to cool down or for some temperature to adjust and then these split seconds where there is a fraction of a second to

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medical mistakes. they are, well, a nightmarish possibility for anyone under going surgery. and now a new study shows they are much more common than perhaps we first thought. cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has a special and it's airing tonight on 25

shocking medical mistakes. and she joins me now. and i have to say, to some of the discussion we had on the couch here before, it's very, very worrying. >> it is worrying, because you go to the hospital to get better. and, you know, millions of people end up injured or end up dead, because of errors. and marty, what really gets this -- gets me about this, so many of them are avoidable. and so let me go through -- there's a new study out from hopkins this week that takes the look at some of the most common ones. and these numbers really are just horrifying. so first of all, when you talk about a wrong procedure, 20 patients a week get the wrong surgical procedure. let's say they go in for a tonsillectomy by the guy after is getting an appendectomy, that happens to 20 patients a week in this country. now let's look at surgeries done on the wrong body part. same number of patients. 20 patients a week, you go in to have your right knee replaced, get the left knee replaced because there was some kind of confusion. and here's the third one. tools left in the body. 39 patients a week have some

kind of a surgical tool left in their body. and, again, what's so frustrating about this is that so many of these are avoidable, and the patient really has to play a big role. >> well, in defense of the industry, i suppose this is still a small percentage, roughly. >> absolutely. >> but you do show how easy it can can happen. >> right. people wonder, how in the world could it happen? for example, how in the world could a surgical sponge get left inside a patient. so we ask that question to dr. peter pronevoeft, one of the co authors of the study. let's listen to his answer. >> there is often blood, tissue, it's very difficult to see. and sometimes sponges are tucked under an organ inside you that they're not in clear view, but they're soaking up some fluid or blood. >> i get it. >> you can see how it happens. and nurses, there is supposed to be a nurse who keeps count, ten sponges went in, ten come out, but you miscount and that can happen. >> what i like, you provide ways

to protect. >> we to. we don't want to scare people. be an empowered and patient and do something. here's one tip near and dear to my heart, because it's something my husband and i did with our daughter. that is, before you go in for surgery, just as close as possible to the surgery, ask to speak with the surgeon. in addition to a nurse. the surgeon is the guy or gal with the knife. you want to talk to the surgeon. and you want to say, let's review it. my name is elizabeth cohen, i'm here today to have my left knee replaced. or whatever it is. my husband and i insisted on doing this when our daughter had surgery. it was tough. the doctor was busy, they didn't want to pull him out. and we said, she is not going to have surgery unless we meet face-to-face with the doctor and go over these facts. >> smart. >> got to do it. >> elizabeth cohen, thanks very much. he risked his life to get an inside look at the war in syria. the film maker's journey. ♪ constipated? yeah. mm. some laxatives like dulcolax can cause cramps. but phillips' caplets don't. they have magnesium. for effective relief of occasional constipation.

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filming his latest project in aleppo, syria. a pro level documentary aimed at raising funds for the free syrian army. for two months, van dike embedded himself with rebels in the cross fire of the country's civil war. >> i strongly believe in the cause of the syrian people. i fought in the war in libya in 2011. and i saw the effects of what we accomplished and i want syrians to have freedom, as well. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: in august, 2012, cnn profiled a 33-year-old from baltimore, maryland who has a masters in middle east security from georgetown university. he just returned from eight months in libya where he fought alongside anti gadhafi rebels and is spent six months in prison. the self-proclaimed freedom fighter and now filmmaker believes he can make a difference with rebels on the ground in syria. his film, he says, helps humanize the revolution. >> i used to wear fancy dresses